Detachable wheel-rim.



c. 0. PAXSON.

DETACHABLE WHEEL RIM.

' APPLICATION FILED OCT. 3,1916.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

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DETACI-IABLE W EEL-Rim.

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\ Application filed October a,

"new and Improved Detachable \Vheel-Rim,

of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to detachable rims for automobile wheels and more particularly to the type in which the detachable rim is formed in sections so that one section may be moved to permit the tire to collapse for facilitating its removal.

An object'of the invention is to provide a detachable rim of the type referred to, in which one section of the rim may be completely removed from the other to permit the tire to freely sag at the portion of the rim from which the section has been removed, thereby causing the tire to more effectively loosen on the remainder of the rim.

A further object of the invention is to prov vide means on the rim to securely lock the removable section in proper position, and so formed and arranged as to facilitate the unlocking and removal of the said section.

The invention will be particularly ex plained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a detachable rim embodying my invention, showing 'the' same in use;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary interior view;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33, Fig. 2.

In forming a wheel rim 10 in accordance with my invention the same is provided with a section 10 separate from the remainder of the rim. The exterior formation of the rim 10 may be suitable for any type of tire A, and the inner formation will be such as to co-aet with any of the usual peripheral formations of the felly of the wheel B. The body 10 of the rim and the removable section 10*. may have protuberances 11 at the inner side and the folly of the wheel B will have any suitable forma- I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

1916. Serial No. 123,468.

tion presenting shoulders as at b to cli iac" with said protuberances and prevent cr'e 111g of the mm.

The joints between the removal section 10 and the body 10 of the detachable rim may be of any suitable form. I have shown at one end-of the section 10 a radial buttjoint 10 and at the opposite end .a beveled joint 10".

At one end of the section l0 the securing and locking means; therefor includes a swinging latch 12. The latch 12 is pivoted at one end on the body 10 of the rim adj acent to the removable section 10. Advantageously, the pivot consists of a tubular stud or rivet 13 through which the stem 0 of the valve may project. At its free end, the latch 12 is adapted to effect hooked engagement with a headed pin 14 projecting radially inward from the inner surface of the movable section 10 the said free end having a lateral slot 15 giving the latch a hooked formation to pass beneath the hea of the pin 14.

the opposite end of the section 10*, there is secured to the same a cleat 16 which projects beyond the end of the section 10 to overlap the body 10 of the rim. On the adjacent end of .the body 10 there is a stud l8 projecting radially, inward and the overlapped end of the cleat 16 is formed with a pin hole to receive said pin 18.

By the described arrangement, when the rim with a tire thereon has been detached from the wheel the latch 12 will be swung laterally to disengage the same from the headed pin 14, then the cleat 16, which usually will be of resilient metal, is disengaged from the pin 18 so that the section 10* may be completely removed instead of merely being swung out of its normal p0sition. The tire may now sag between the ends of the body 10 of the rim as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 1, thereby loosening the tire on the body of the rim and permitting the tire to be readily removed. y

Having thus described my invention. I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A detachable rim composed of a main body section constituting the major portion of the rim, a section constituting the remaining portion of the rim and bodily re- V601); of the rim, and :5. latch pivotaily semovable from the main section, and means cured at one end by the said tubular rivet,

to detachably fasten both ends of the rethe said tubular rivet forming a passage for 10 movable section, the fastening means at one the air valve, the opposite end of the latch end consisting of a stud prqecting radially having ahooked formation to engage the inward on the removable section, a tubular said pin on the removable section. rivet on the adjacent end of the body sec- CALVIN'DAVID PAXSON; 

